KeyngdrumDuos with Drummers (acoustic and electric)Thollem has played with many great drummers, both famous and under-known, across stylisticborders, approaching each collaboration and situation uniquely in the further realms andsub-genres of rock, jazz and classical musics.

"On Dub Narcotic Session, McDonas and Chase combust just fine on their own, spazzing out on manic jazz-punk that ranges from two-minute hard chargers to a 19-minute odyssey. Session unfolds like a conversation: There's Chase, the tireless, multi-armed sticks monster letting loose a cache of thwacks, thumps, booms, brushes, crushes and strokes, then there's McDonas, whose raging-yet-fluid keys pulverization makes for an assaultive back and forth. But while Session does have its aggressive improv moments (McDonas doesn't so much tickle the ivories as pound all 88 of'em) it's not all skronk warfare. The adventurous twosome has a knack for melody rooted in their ecstatic jazz backgrounds. In "Dis-Mis-Education," they explore warped, avant-bar-room blues, while "Scavengers and Nomads" and "Where We Come From" probe classi-kill doom, and "Mind Control Free For All" is a full on no wave noise chugger..."- Brad Cohan, Spin Magazine (Excerpt)"A wickedly percussive combination. There is also a lot of pace and intensity, so this works for jazz people that like rock and maybe more importantly, vice versa." - David E. Hintz DC ROCK LIVE"Best piano-drums duo i've seen/heard in years - and I've seen some of the best!"- Tom Orange, Jazz Director, WCSB 89.3 FM Cleveland